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VERB
加速，加快（常指不愉快的事）
If you hasten an event or process, often an unpleasant one, you make it happen faster or sooner.
例句
But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
但是如果他这样做，就有可能加速自己国家的崩溃。
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VERB
急忙;赶快;赶紧
If you hasten to do something, you are quick to do it.
例句
She more than anyone had hastened to sign the contract.
她比谁都急着去签了合同。
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VERB
（为避免他人误会）急忙（补充说）
If you hasten to say something, you quickly add something to what you have just said in order to prevent it being misunderstood.
例句
Naturally, it'll go back. But without Murray's little note, I hasten to add...
很自然，它会返回。但没有默里的便条，我急忙补充道。
'There's no threat in this, Freddie,' Arnold hastened to say...
“这不会有什么危险的，弗雷迪，”阿诺德急忙补充了一句。
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VERB
赶往;赶去
If you hasten somewhere, you hurry there.
例句
One of them, the first to alight, hastened with quicksilver steps towards me.
他们中第一个下来的人急急忙忙地快步向我走来。